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Re: Bug#750424: cups-pk-helper: FTBFS on hurd-i386



On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 12:53 +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> On 2014-06-03 12:19, Svante Signell wrote:
> > Source: cups-pk-helper
> > Version: 0.2.5-2
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: patch
> > User: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
> > Usertags: hurd
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Currently the latest version of cups-pk-helper fails to build from
> > source and is flagged as out-of-date. This is due to usage of 
> > PATH_MAX,
> > which is not defined on GNU/Hurd. The attached patch solve this 
> > problem
> > by defining PATH_MAX to 4096 in src/cups.c if not defined.
> >
> > The reason for not doing it differently is that the character array
> > newppdfile[] is used in function cupsTempFile2() to create a 
> > temporary
> > file and this function is defined in the cups package, not in
> > cups-pk-helper.
> 
> As I wrote in #750424: this has reported upstream already.
> 
> Svante: it would be *really* helpful if you could check upstream
> before reporting upstream bugs to Debian. It isn't that difficult,
> you don't need special skills to search into bug/issue trackers or
> in VCSes. This will avoid duplicating work already done by someone
> else.

Is it possible to file a Debian bug at the same time as the upstream
report, for simplicity? Checking every upstream for fixed packages not
in the Debian BTS is tedious. And it might be so that the Debian
Maintainer choose to approve the patch before upstream, in this case
reducing the out-of-date package count number.


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